"Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared."

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Source : "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.

George Leigh Mallory

#Sky Quotes #White Quotes #Imagination Quotes

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“I don't watch a lot of television.”
“The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”
“What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.”
“I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.”

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